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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






2. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






4. A poem that tells a story.






5. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






6. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






7. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






8. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






9. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






10. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






11. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






12. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






13. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






14. The dictionary meaning of a word.






15. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






16. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






17. A character struggles against some outside force.






18. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






19. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






20. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






21. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






22. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






23. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






25. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






26. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






27. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






28. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






29. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






30. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






31. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






32. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






33. The organizational form of a literary work.






34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






35. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






37. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






38. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






39. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






40. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






41. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






42. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






43. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






44. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






45. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






46. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






47. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






48. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






49. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






50. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.